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1703 - 1789 (86 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Ebenezer NORTH was born in 1703 in Northington, Connecticut (son of Thomas NORTH and Hannah NEWELL); died on 5 Aug 1789. Notes:
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Ebenezer North was one of the petitioners to the General Assembly at Hartford, May 10, 1739, for permission to erect a new meetinghouse in Kensington Parish. He removed from Great Swamp (now Berlin) or Kensington to Torrington in the spring of 1741 with his family. With Zebulon Curtis he bought two farms south of the old Matthew Grant place in Torrington, where he settled, later selling part of his land to Curtis.
Ebenezer North was the progenitor of the Torrington branch of the Norths.
Ebenezer married Sybil CURTISS on 10 Dec 1730. Sybil was born about 1703; died on 17 Nov 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Noah NORTH was born on 10 Jan 1733 in Kensington, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 05 Apr 1808 in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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Generation: 2
2. | Thomas NORTH was born on 30 Jun 1649 (son of John NORTH and Hannah BIRD); died in 1712. Other Events and Attributes:
- Fact: Son of John North and Mary Bird
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After his marriage and the birth of two sons, Thomas North enlisted under Captain Henchman in King Philip's War. He was stationed with Connecticut troops in the vicinity of Boston in 1675, and was with the garrison at Hadley, Mass., in the summer of 1676. He was made freeman there Feb. 8, 1678, and received a grant of land for his military services in or near Northington, Now Avon, where he and Joseph Woodford were pioneer settlers. There he lived on the east side of the river near the old Marshall's tavern, "under the mountain" and north of the Hartford and Albany turnpike. He was a magistrate of the colony of Connecticut.
Thomas married Hannah NEWELL in 1669. Hannah (daughter of Thomas NEWELL and Rebecca OLMSTEAD) was born in 1656; was christened on 11 Apr 1658; died on 4 Nov 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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